West v. Scott

I respectfully dissent.

In its first decree the trial court awarded the mother an increase in child support of $50 a month to be effective when the ar-rearage was paid in twenty-nine months. The father had been ordered to pay the arrearage at the rate of $50 a month. The evidence shows that the father admitted he could pay an additional $50 a month in child support.

We said in West v. Scott, 414 So.2d 981 (Ala.Civ.App.1982) that the payment of child support arrearages is not a pertinent consideration in the determination of present and future child support. Yet the trial court, on remand of…